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GNOME: Application icons are not displayed immediately after installation

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Message #41 received at 35594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>,
 35594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#36376: Application menu of desktop environment not
 automatically updated
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:23:21 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 16:25, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

[...]

>> The main downside is extra grafting, which means extra disk and CPU
>> usage for our users.  However, libx11 (11K dependents) is also grafted,
>> so it shouldn’t make things worse (GLib has 6K dependents).
>
> No free lunch. :-)
> Is it really slow or acceptable?

If you’re installing a graphical applications, it’s already being
grafted, so the extra graft doesn’t make a difference.

Non-graphical applications that depend on GLib will now need to be
grafted, but I think there aren’t many of them, and they too might also
be grafted for other reasons.

Ludo’.

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